still a big fan of coach wyking but if he doesn't return texts & phone calls of walk on prospects, recruits & their aau/high school coaches it will eventually be damaging to cal basketball recruiting & limit the upward trajectory of his career

transparency of communication (disregard nobody)#

Really damaging stuff. If you have an issue, why don't you call him personally?Publicly posting this stuff isn't helping. You're just a donor. Don't try to be anything else.

still a big fan of coach wyking but if he doesn't return texts & phone calls of walk on prospects, recruits & their aau/high school coaches it will eventually be damaging to cal basketball recruiting & limit the upward trajectory of his career

transparency of communication (disregard nobody)#

Probably a quicker and more productive way to notify him, IF that is your goal. However, I'm not sure what the goal of your post was.

let's be real here, bobo, martin is not a curvy brunette yoga female with a flat stomach...still can't believe that trevin, juhwan & justice weren't named to the mcdonalds all american west team, that's just wrong

Any word on when we will hear about assistant coaches? And I know its not, but the recruiting scene is very quiet right now. I am wondering what brilliance Coach is cooking up behind the scenes... Usually, Cal would have been mentioned with some of these transfers and recruits reopening their process. I am hoping that Jones is just a little more discreet than other coaches have been.

Any word on when we will hear about assistant coaches? And I know its not, but the recruiting scene is very quiet right now. I am wondering what brilliance Coach is cooking up behind the scenes... Usually, Cal would have been mentioned with some of these transfers and recruits reopening their process. I am hoping that Jones is just a little more discreet than other coaches have been.

Are we not in a dead period? I looked it up last week on NCAA. You can as well.

Wrong. It is an experiment in the collective consciousness, programmed by creators of the Matrix to see if irrational thought and speech can lead to positive feelings and "actions." It kind of went awry and became an experiment to see how much bad news and near misses a population can take before they start to go insane or change their behavior/preferences. Actually, that is the purpose of the entirety of Cal sports.

Wrong. It is an experiment in the collective consciousness, programmed by creators of the Matrix to see if irrational thought and speech can lead to positive feelings and "actions." It kind of went awry and became an experiment to see how much bad news and near misses a population can take before they start to go insane or change their behavior/preferences. Actually, that is the purpose of the entirety of Cal sports.

Wrong. It is an experiment in the collective consciousness, programmed by creators of the Matrix to see if irrational thought and speech can lead to positive feelings and "actions." It kind of went awry and became an experiment to see how much bad news and near misses a population can take before they start to go insane or change their behavior/preferences. Actually, that is the purpose of the entirety of Cal sports.

both baker & sarr do not "want to risk their nba development" on an "unproven" head coach, martin & his track record of putting guys in the league was a key factor in their commitments to cal

What players has Martin "developed". He inherited Wallace and he recruited Brown and Rabb. Brown was a lottery pick the day he stepped on campus. Rabb also. However Rabb returned and is now no longer considered a lottery pick. Wallace is a unique player. A slasher that cannot shoot. And he is in the D league anyway. I think Martin had a guy at Tennessee who is in the NBA, but really he has not shown himself to be a "developer" of NBA talent. He has recruited some NBA level guys, but development not really IMO. Jones has been around some NBA talent at Louisville and he has been on staff during for one season with Wallace and Brown and 2 for Rabb. The "unproven " head coach part I get, developer of NBA talent I do not get.

If we are to believe that perhaps Wyking may be adding an assistant with NBA ties that could easily solve the development question. IMO the biggest part of development is committing to the skills and strength development laid out by the staff. And that part of development is as much on the player as the staff. If you want to find your way into the NBA then get to a program where you can play and develop on the court assuming you have the requisite athletic ability and size to play in the NBA to begin with. So did Martin really try and sell the total "Cal package" to these recruits or just tell em come play for me and I will get you to the NBA? Seems to me if these guys were sold on the total Cal package they would not have bailed so quickly after a coaching change. But that's just me thinking aloud.

If that's the case, recruiting for 2018 will be a challenge. Wyking is going to have to go up against some heavy hitters for Brown, Taeshon Cherry, etc. without having coached a game.

That is why his staff selection is so critical. Lots of guys can sell the academics, but you need really good recruiters to sell against Arizona, UCLA and Oregon and now Gonzaga in the west. If Wyking is able to secure an assistant with NBA ties (Theo?) it may help in recruiting NBA level types. I think very few coaches actually develop players for the NBA. The use players to win now. Any development comes from individual hard work and game experience. College coaches do not have the time to spend really developing players. But NBA coaching experience can be a big help with those true "one and dones" that Cal is attempting to recruit.

MC, I cannot fathom why you would make anything of Shocky's post, other than that it shows our narcissist to be a first class a-hole.

Ad Hominem attacks nauseate me. I like Shocky - a lot - in many ways, not the least of which is that I can feel free about communicating anything with him, and it'll get received and dealt with in, to me, always, a satisfactory way -- and, at least in my own mind, I don't have much tolerance for B.S.

6956, let's be real clear here, the martin "development" of nba talent is the perception of sarr & baker, not mine...they are both young men that got handlers with agendas in their ears

wyking has coached up multiple guys at both louisville & cal (jaylen & ivan) that got minted in the nba

Not saying that you believe it. Just pointing out that it is a false narrative. Wyking probably had more to do with any actual developing than Martin, since he actually worked with the bigs individually. Martin can and apparently did sell that "perception" to Sarr and Baker.

6956, let's be real clear here, the martin "development" of nba talent is the perception of sarr & baker, not mine...they are both young men that got handlers with agendas in their ears

wyking has coached up multiple guys at both louisville & cal (jaylen & ivan) that got minted in the nba

I hope they have other advisers who can set them straight. Realistically, it's likely too late for 2017 prospects. I think they need to focus more on transfers and 2018. Wyking needs some strong recruiters on his staff. Any thoughts on how good O'Toole is at recruiting?

What players has Martin "developed". He inherited Wallace and he recruited Brown and Rabb. Brown was a lottery pick the day he stepped on campus. Rabb also. However Rabb returned and is now no longer considered a lottery pick. Wallace is a unique player. A slasher that cannot shoot. And he is in the D league anyway. I think Martin had a guy at Tennessee who is in the NBA, but really he has not shown himself to be a "developer" of NBA talent. He has recruited some NBA level guys, but development not really IMO. Jones has been around some NBA talent at Louisville and he has been on staff during for one season with Wallace and Brown and 2 for Rabb. The "unproven " head coach part I get, developer of NBA talent I do not get.

If we are to believe that perhaps Wyking may be adding an assistant with NBA ties that could easily solve the development question. IMO the biggest part of development is committing to the skills and strength development laid out by the staff. And that part of development is as much on the player as the staff. If you want to find your way into the NBA then get to a program where you can play and develop on the court assuming you have the requisite athletic ability and size to play in the NBA to begin with. So did Martin really try and sell the total "Cal package" to these recruits or just tell em come play for me and I will get you to the NBA? Seems to me if these guys were sold on the total Cal package they would not have bailed so quickly after a coaching change. But that's just me thinking aloud.

Martin had 3 guys from Tennessee get into the League: Josh Richardson, Jordan McRae, and Jarnell Stokes. Not saying he was some great developer of talent, but he had more than 1 guy.

6956, let's be real clear here, the martin "development" of nba talent is the perception of sarr & baker, not mine...they are both young men that got handlers with agendas in their ears

wyking has coached up multiple guys at both louisville & cal (jaylen & ivan) that got minted in the nba

Why all the hand-wringing about Baker and Sarr?

Baker seemed like he might have been regressing his senior year. Sueing and JHD seem to be getting better and better. They were both named All CIF Southern Section first team, while Baker was not, even though his HS teammate Matt Mitchell (class of 2018) was. Cal has had more success with kids on the rise their senior year, e.g., Ryan Anderson, Allen Crabbe, etc. If I had to choose one of the three to lose out on, it would have to be Baker at this point. We shall see how that plays out, though.

As for Sarr, well he looked like a project. And Cal is fine for bigs next season, but bigs obviously will be a 2018 priority.

Wrong. It is an experiment in the collective consciousness, programmed by creators of the Matrix to see if irrational thought and speech can lead to positive feelings and "actions." It kind of went awry and became an experiment to see how much bad news and near misses a population can take before they start to go insane or change their behavior/preferences. Actually, that is the purpose of the entirety of Cal sports.